What Child Is This?
Dr. Darrow Perkins
Matthew 1:18-25
Naturally so, there is great joy within families when a child is born. By virtue of the fact that the child was born alive and healthy, there's a sense of relief, elation, and overall good feelings in knowing that the child has arrived. The birth of this child brings hope for the future, the carrying on of the human race, and the potential that the child will make a positive impact on society and the world. Everybody is normally happy when a baby is born, but there were some people in the Bible that weren't too happy about when they were born. Brother Job said in Job 3:3, ''Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.'' The prophet Jeremiah said something along those same lines when he said in Jeremiah 20:14, ''Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.''
These men said those things because of all that they had experienced in life. It's interesting to note that we'll make statements like this when things are going bad or wrong in our lives, but will rejoice in the day we were born when things are going well. That was not the case concerning the birth of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, in Luke 2, the Angel of the Lord spoke to some shepherds who were in the fields, and told them that Christ was to be born and that the sign was that the babe would ''be wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'' (Luke 2:12) Then the report concerning the birth of Christ is found in Luke 2:14 which says, ''Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will toward men.''
The birth of Christ is to be looked upon as a joyous and happy time, as His birth is one of the things required for Him to fulfill all Scripture concerning the Messiah.
Our text is found in the Gospel according to Matthew. Matthew was a publican, a Jew who had become a tax collector for the Romans. His Gospel was written ...
Dr. Darrow Perkins
Matthew 1:18-25
Naturally so, there is great joy within families when a child is born. By virtue of the fact that the child was born alive and healthy, there's a sense of relief, elation, and overall good feelings in knowing that the child has arrived. The birth of this child brings hope for the future, the carrying on of the human race, and the potential that the child will make a positive impact on society and the world. Everybody is normally happy when a baby is born, but there were some people in the Bible that weren't too happy about when they were born. Brother Job said in Job 3:3, ''Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.'' The prophet Jeremiah said something along those same lines when he said in Jeremiah 20:14, ''Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.''
These men said those things because of all that they had experienced in life. It's interesting to note that we'll make statements like this when things are going bad or wrong in our lives, but will rejoice in the day we were born when things are going well. That was not the case concerning the birth of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, in Luke 2, the Angel of the Lord spoke to some shepherds who were in the fields, and told them that Christ was to be born and that the sign was that the babe would ''be wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'' (Luke 2:12) Then the report concerning the birth of Christ is found in Luke 2:14 which says, ''Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will toward men.''
The birth of Christ is to be looked upon as a joyous and happy time, as His birth is one of the things required for Him to fulfill all Scripture concerning the Messiah.
Our text is found in the Gospel according to Matthew. Matthew was a publican, a Jew who had become a tax collector for the Romans. His Gospel was written ...
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